Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia - 11/06/1976 • TopPop

Опубликовано 4 декабря 2024, 16:00

On june 11th, 1976 a very special concert took place in the studio's of the dutch TROS tv-programme "Music all Inn". The audience witnessed a great concert of Gladys Knight and (her family group) the Pips, and as a special guest starred Al Foster, the drummer who played for a long time with Miles Davis. Here Gladys performs "Midnight train to Georgia". Songwriter Jim Weatherly created this song, that was originally titled "Midnight plane to Houston". Starlett (and the later actress) Farah Fawcett was on the phone with Jimmy, when she suddenly said she had no time, because she had to take the plane to Houston"... The song was inspired by the story of Fawcett and her friend/husband Lee Majors. Short story: a girl comes to L.A., doesn;t make it and takes a plane home. The guy accompanies her. The song was an instant success, but became really famous when Gladys Knight and the Pips recorded it as :Midnight train to Georgia".

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